Here's an august professor of Jewish civilization, Jacques Berlinerblau, who was on tv moderating Bob Shrum and David Frum last week and today is about to conduct a forum on "the Jewish vote," who has noticed that Jews are getting more conservative and offers his take on same and there is nothing about Israel, Iraq, neocons. And meanwhile this kind of legerdemain:
What is behind this small but significant shift to the Right? One
widely discussed and plausible hypothesis points to the influx of
roughly 650, 000 Jews from the Soviet Union to the United States over
the past three decades.
widely discussed and plausible hypothesis points to the influx of
roughly 650, 000 Jews from the Soviet Union to the United States over
the past three decades.
This is in Newsweek. Truly disgraceful–religious mystification. When Berlinerblau talks about the Christian right, he doesn't hesitate to bring up abortion and gay rights.
The Jewish incremental shift to the right in the US is a function of aging of the Jewish population, and some demagraphic effect of assimilation reducing the number of civilist Jews relative to religious.
Why is the name-calling "neo-con", better than the name-calling "commie", or "terrorist".
Why is the name-calling "neo-con", better than the name-calling "commie", or "terrorist".
Posted by: Richard Witty | October 31, 2008 at 10:23 AM
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I'll bite. Why?
I don't have a punchline.
Its a question?
American Jews are shifting Right because their hypocrisy is no longer being tolerated: staunch conservatives on issues concerning the "Jewish family" in Israel and support for majoritarian hegemony there; staunch liberals in America and supporters of minoritarian (Zionist) hegemony here. In taking up the cause of the religious Israelis, they've come to the realization that left-liberal atheistic Marxists have it in for ALL religions. (Due to their delusions of choseness, for decades in America they thought they could be the exception to the rule and play both sides against the Christian middle.) Of course, their conservatism here (Neoconservatism) is as twisted as was their “liberalism” in the Soviet Union (Bolshevism). Their collective megalomania seems to pervert nearly every non-Jewish cause they take up. They really need to either assimilate here or emigrate to Israel. They have an inherent, God-given right to existence, of course, as do Muslims. But we can no better incorporate militant Zionism into America than we could ever incorporate militant Islam.
The Jews I know who came from Russia in the 1970's, with good university educations paid for by the public, have a lot to say that was good about the USSR system they knew. I don't get the connection. Why would they be the answer to the right-shift of American Jews? Phil's explanation is much more plausible, especially since all the jews I know are to the left–except when it comes to
rubber-stamping whatever the Israel government does….
Why is the name-calling "neo-NAZI", better than the name-calling "zionist", or "terrorist"?
What would You call those elected (Chaney) and appointee people in the Bush Jr regime usually referred to as neocons? Zionists?
You can start by looking at PNAC and the Office Of Special Plans. Then go to AIPAC, for example the spy case that has been hid.
I don't have a punchline.
Its a question?
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"It's a question" could also be a statement.
I think any terminology applied fairly is not "name-calling." It can be argued about common usage (such as with "terrorism" where the US meets the definition of terrorism/terrorist state) but "neocon" seems a valid descriptor.
What term do you prfere for the grouping of "Israel-firsters"?
zionist jews ought to be so proud of themselves….for the total dehumanizing of an entire people. the complainers have become the criminals and they know how to justify just like their enemies have justified pogroms and expulsions in the past. enjoy and be proud. its all you have left.
I'm afraid the first poster is right. What goes around comes around, and if you perpetuate the same, it comes around again. How can Jewish people, of all the people on earth, believe that pogroms, and genocide, are the way to build a nation? I know that for every Zionist, there are thousands of Jews who stand for humanity and decency. Call on whatever god you wish, a god who claims to have created all, and then chooses sides is a sick god, and not one people admire, except they are craven.
I'm tired of being called 'anti-semitic' though I fault my own nation, the USA, which is not controlled by 'Jews,' for the exact same crimes of which I accuse Israel's leaders. And I know that 'American' leaders use Israel as a front for aims that have nothing to do with the welfare of any Jewish person, but rather their own corrupt wish to steal. These sins do not belong to any one race – don't we know that by now?